In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.
Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.
Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".
You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
Triumph depends on a roll of Fate's dice; the ultimate prize is a place in Heaven.
Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
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